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Use Narrator to read out a play or story with different voices for each of the parts. It uses speech synthesis to read out marked passages using specified voice attributes. You can choose different voices, rates, pitches, inflections, and volumes for each character in the story. The words are highlighted on-screen, and there are also a couple of silent read-along options for stage directions, or for you to read out your own parts.
Give Voice to Your Stories
The main point of Narrator is to read stories out loud, so naturally having a range of actors to perform the roles is important. Mac OS X comes with several high-quality synthesized voices, plus a selection of cartoonish novelty options. You can also get additional voices, in several languages, from the third-party supplier Cepstral. See the Narrator Voice Talent page to audition these actors.
Using the controls in the Narrator document sidebar, you can pick a voice actor, and adjust the speed they speak, the pitch of their voice, the inflection tone (from flat and robotic to excited), and the volume. This enables a wide range of expressiveness when performing your story.
There are also a couple of special silent actors: one that reads along with the text, rather like a karaoke machine, so you can speak your part, and the other that skips over the text, optionally with a short delay; good for stage directions.
Show Your Character
Like in a play or TV show, the actors play a cast of characters to bring the story to life. Narrator uses this metaphor to assign voices to passages of your story. You can add any number of characters in the sidebar, assigning different actors to each, or use the same actor for multiple characters with different voice attributes, for example normal and whispering, or slow and reflective in thought or hurried.
To help organize the characters, you can write some comments about them, and can assign a color to help distinguish them.
Characters are assigned to your story very easily — via a drag, double-click, toolbar click, or menu command. A marker is inserted in the text, indicating where their passage begins. When reading the story, Narrator seamlessly switches between characters, so they can have a conversation.
Listen on Your iPod
It's easy to play the speech within Narrator. But you're not limited to that: you can also export the speech directly to iTunes, where you can listen to it over and over, or sync it to your iPod or iPhone. This enables you to create your own audiobooks from text — for example, take a work of classic literature from Project Gutenberg, assign characters to the story, and export to iTunes.
There is also an export option for AAC sound files, for use with other sound playing software, for example using as a soundtrack in iMovie, or as a screencast voiceover.
Give Voice to Your Stories
The main point of Narrator is to read stories out loud, so naturally having a range of actors to perform the roles is important. Mac OS X comes with several high-quality synthesized voices, plus a selection of cartoonish novelty options. You can also get additional voices, in several languages, from the third-party supplier Cepstral. See the Narrator Voice Talent page to audition these actors.
Using the controls in the Narrator document sidebar, you can pick a voice actor, and adjust the speed they speak, the pitch of their voice, the inflection tone (from flat and robotic to excited), and the volume. This enables a wide range of expressiveness when performing your story.
There are also a couple of special silent actors: one that reads along with the text, rather like a karaoke machine, so you can speak your part, and the other that skips over the text, optionally with a short delay; good for stage directions.
Show Your Character
Like in a play or TV show, the actors play a cast of characters to bring the story to life. Narrator uses this metaphor to assign voices to passages of your story. You can add any number of characters in the sidebar, assigning different actors to each, or use the same actor for multiple characters with different voice attributes, for example normal and whispering, or slow and reflective in thought or hurried.
To help organize the characters, you can write some comments about them, and can assign a color to help distinguish them.
Characters are assigned to your story very easily — via a drag, double-click, toolbar click, or menu command. A marker is inserted in the text, indicating where their passage begins. When reading the story, Narrator seamlessly switches between characters, so they can have a conversation.
Listen on Your iPod
It's easy to play the speech within Narrator. But you're not limited to that: you can also export the speech directly to iTunes, where you can listen to it over and over, or sync it to your iPod or iPhone. This enables you to create your own audiobooks from text — for example, take a work of classic literature from Project Gutenberg, assign characters to the story, and export to iTunes.
There is also an export option for AAC sound files, for use with other sound playing software, for example using as a soundtrack in iMovie, or as a screencast voiceover.
System Requirements:
- Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
- Snow Leopard compatible.
- runs on both Intel and PPC Macs
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